Head-In-Sand Approach: White House Bans Current & Former Intelligence Staff From Discussing Any Media Leaks (via Techdirt) The Obama administration continues to make incredibly ridiculous decisions in response to the whole Snowden thing. A...

James Clapper Bans Intelligence Community From Basically Any Interaction With Nearly Anyone With A Social Media Account (via Techdirt) Back in 2012, we wrote about how Senator Dianne Feinstein appeared to be a lot more focused on who leaked...

Latest Declassified NSA Records Show NSA Believes It Can Spy On Everyone’s Location Based On Existing Approvals (via Techdirt) James Clapper has declassified another batch of documents on the NSA activities. We’ll probably write...

We’re used to our government’s security and intelligence agencies telling lies in order to justify their actions. The Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, has achieved a sort of infamy for his “least untruthful...

The White House has moved to dampen controversy over the role of the director of national intelligence James Clapper in a panel reviewing NSA surveillance, insisting that he would neither lead it nor choose the members. Statements by Barack...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than a quarter of the Senate’s members asked the top intelligence official on Friday to release more information on the government’s bulk collection of data on Americans’ communications. Led by...

WASHINGTON — The United States is taking “serious and noticeable” measures to prevent another breach of classified files like the massive WikiLeaks document dump, the nation’s spy chief said Thursday. James Clapper, director of...